You Can Rock Me To Sleep Tonight!

On my way out of the train station this morning I stopped at the ATM, so when I was riding up the escalator shortly thereafter I was not with a crowd.  A man who appeared perfectly sane was riding down the escalator on the other side, and when he got parallel to me he looked at me and said:  "You are only hearing half of the question the universe is asking you."  And then he continued on his merry downward way leaving me to wonder:  what is the other half of the question?!!  What's the half I'm hearing and what's the half I'm missing?

I pondered this as I walked to work and was still stumped when I arrived.

Any ideas?

Dorothy thinking, I would have preferred it 

if the question was multiple choice.